(JTA) — Driving through this dusty desert city of many ornate and ancient mosques, Shirin Yakubov recalls the ruthlessness of her country’s recently deceased president of 25 years. “He killed all of them, every last one,” she says of Islam Karimov’s role in the 2005 police massacre of hundreds of suspected Islamists in the eastern…
A second arsonist has struck the Bukharian Jewish community in Queens, where seven homes under construction or renovation have been torched, officials said. This time, it’s a suspected copycat fire starter, New York City police said Friday, and the target is mounds of rubbish. In a short window of time late last Wednesday, the new…
New York City cops have released a new video of a suspect in the string of arson fires targeting Bukharian Jews in Queens — and he’s carrying a gun. The grainy video does not give a clear image of the perp — his face is hidden by his hoodie — but he does appear to…
The president of the New York City borough of Queens, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives and numerous other city officials met with Bukharian Jewish leaders about a string of arsons affecting the community of central Asian Jews. At a meeting Tuesday morning at the Bukharian Jewish Community Center in Forest Hills, a…
The New York Police Department has sent several elite units to a Queens neighborhood where several Jewish homes have been set on fire and has published surveillance video (embedded below) of the suspected arsonist. The police announced Monday they are dispatching a Strategic Response Unit to Forest Hills to address the seven arson attacks there…
New York police are still searching for the driver who killed a prominent Jewish jeweler in a hit-and-run accident. Aron “Eric” Aranbayev, whose jewelry store in the Diamond District of Manhattan, New York, is known for its popularity with hip-hop stars like Drake and Busta Rhymes, died early Monday morning after being run over Sunday…
The Yuhan believes he might be Bukharian Jewry’s last great hope. “Assimilation will kill us,” Yuhan said. “We are drowning, but I still want to take a last grip of air.” Bukharian Jews held on to their traditions among the Muslim populations of Central Asia for more than 1,000 years. But maintaining Bukharian culture in…
How do you pick the life-sized photograph to have engraved with a laser on your father’s headstone? Boris Shtern’s survivors chose a portrait of him with a moustache as thick as Groucho’s to go on his gravestone at Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery. Yefiv Sheynin looks like a 1950s Vegas playboy in his portrait in granite. Boris…
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